Clothes-line support.



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CLOTHES LINE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED DEc.2o, |915.

Patented Nov. 19, 1918.

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CARL IVIOHR, OF SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN.

CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORT.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

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Application filed December 20, 1915. Serial No. 67,703.

T o all whom. t may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL Moi-IAR, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Sheboygan, in the county of Sheboygan and State of Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Line Supports; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its obJect to provide a simple, useful, economical and effective collapsible line especially adapted for use' in connection with drying clothes, the construction and arrangement being such that the apparatus as a whole, while operating in a minimum space will have a maximum capacity.

With the above object in view the invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts as hereinafter set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 represents an elevation of a clothes drying apparatus embodying the features of my invention, the same being shown in its distended or f ull operating position;

Fig. 2, a detailed cross-section of the shackle mechanism for confining the line to a post or column, the section being indicated by line 2 2 of Fig. 3, and

Fig.' 3, a detailed sectional view of a windlass mechanism employed in carrying out my invention, the section being indicated by line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Referring by characters to the drawings, 1, 1, represent vertical posts which constitute rail members and under ordinary conditions are arranged to be, for example, of considerable height or in such proportions to the details that an animal or person can pass under the lowest strand of the apparatus Without interference and, in practice, the windlass actuating mechanism may be so low to the ground that animals or persons can safely step over the same.

It should be understood that in the exemplification of my inventiomwhile I have shown posts for supporting the drying rigging, I may, in some instances, employ rails which may be attached at their top and bottom to the sides of buildings or other points of 'anchorage and that these rails may be vertically or horizontally disposed as, for example, in high tenement buildings the apparatus may be positioned vertically and accessible from the windows, whereby the washing may be conveniently attached and thel apparatus run out to a full distended position, as shown in Fig. 1.

2, 2, represent companion sets of clips which encircle the posts, the ends of the clips being rearwardly connected by concavo-convexed rollers 2, which are adapted to track upon the posts or rail members. Each clip member pivotally carries a three-armed block 3 having triangula-rly disposed apertures therein. One set of the apertures are connected by runners 4 constituting clothes line sections, the same'being fastened to the blocks 3 by spring snaps of any standard type. The runners or lines may be composed of any desired material such as galvanized wir'e, cables, cotton rope, or the like.

"The series of blocks are cross-connected' by tie-cables 5 having snap-hooks for engagement with the eyes of the blocks and the outer companion blocks indicated-at are connected to the ends of hoisting cables 6 by suitable snap hooks. .These cables are passed over guide sheaves 7 which are suitably journaled upon studs carried at the ends of the posts 1, the said sheaves, as shown, being fitted into apertures formed in the post ends. The hoist cables are extended downwardly and engage and are guided by the several rollers 2 of the clip connections, the inner ends of said cables being secured to and coiled about companion drums 8, 8, which drums are fast to a shaft 9. The shaft is j ournaled in bearing brackets 9 that are secured to the inner or lower ends of the posts, as shown, and the drum 8 carries a ratchet-wheel 10, which is engaged by a spring-controlled dog 11 that is provided with an arm 11', whereby the said dog may be manually disengaged from the ratchetwheel. The shaft 9 is also provided with a crank 9 in juxtaposition to the drum 8, whereby the windlass mechanism just described is manipulated. 12, 12, represent stop-blocks for engagement with the clip rollers 2', whereby the various stretches of the clothes line are nested at a convenient point for loading the same.

When the apparatus is positioned to operate vertically, as shown in the drawings, in order to load each of the line stretches with washing, the dog 11 is manipulated to permit the drums to unwind the hoisting cables 6, whereby the first line of the series will drop down andv be stop ed by the blocks 12. This nesting of the rst line will be vfollowed by the second line and so on through the series until the entire set of line sections are brought to a common point. The first line is then loaded and thereafter it is drawn up clear of the nested series from which the second line is now lifted and similarly loaded, the latterbeing then drawn clear of the third and so on throughout the entire series until the several stretches of line are all set with 'the`washing, at whichI ged for horizontal operation,v I may con-v neet the lower block y with pull runners, which runners may be snapped into the unoccupied eyes of said blocks, whereby the last stretch of the line can be drawn in toward the window coincident to release of the windlass mechanism.

It is also manifest that the rigging may be provided with as many line units as the case may require by adding companion clips or subtracting them from the series.

I claim: 1

A support of the class described and for the' purpose specified comprising a pair of parallel supporting members having their outer sides transversely curved throughout their length, a sheave journaled in the end of each supporting member, a like number of yokes embracing each supporting memrestait ber, a plurality of three-armed blocks having an aperture in the end of each arm, each of said blocks pivoted midway the apertures therein to the inner portion of each yoke, a longitudinally concaved roller on' the outer portion of each yoke and shaped for engagement with the transversely curved portions of the supporting members, aline connected with each companion pair of blocks by means of the inwardly extending apertured arms thereof, a flexible operating member disposed around each of said \sheaves and having one end fixed to the outwardly extending arm of each outermost block, a winding mechanism on each supporting member adjacent the supporting end thereof and having the other ends of said flexible operating members disposed therearound, said iieXible operatingl members being disposedin the concaved portions of the rollers and guided thereby, a con necting line of predetermined length detachably secured to the adjacent arms of each adjacent pair of blocks, whereby-connecting lines of different lengths may be used to space the blocks different distances apart, and means for limiting the downward movement of the yokes.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Sheboygan in the county of Sheboygan and State of Wis consin in the presence of two witnesses.

CARL MOHAR.

Witnesses:

PETER S'roRBoR, ANTON STARICH. 

